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industries and transform lives
Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) today announced that Founder and
CEO Kevin Gosschalk of Arkose Labs was named an Entrepreneur Of The
Year® 2024 Bay Area Award winner. Entrepreneur Of The Year is the
preeminent competitive awards program for entrepreneurs and leaders
of high-growth companies.
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EY Entrepreneur Of The Year is the
preeminent competitive awards program for entrepreneurs and leaders
of high-growth companies. (Graphic: Business Wire)
Gosschalk was selected by an independent judging panel made up
of previous award winners, leading CEOs and other business leaders.
Candidates were evaluated based on their ability to create
long-term value through entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to their
purpose and the demonstration of growth and substantial impact,
among other key indicators.
“When EY asked what leadership means to me, my resolute answer
was ‘people,’” said Gosschalk. “Arkose Labs wouldn’t be where it is
today and where we’re going without the fantastic team we have in
place across the company, our investors and the deep partnerships
we build with our customers. Together, we’re in the trenches and
the foxholes 24/7/365 to detect and stop automated attacks and
malicious bots, before they make an impact. As cybercriminals are
advancing and evolving every day, we’re continuously innovating to
accurately identify good users and reduce the volume, internal
cost, and impact of bot attacks and online fraud for the largest
enterprises in the world where customer experience and scale matter
most. Arkose Labs is truly an example of what people and a
commitment to innovation can do to make the digital world a better,
safer place to live, work, and play.”
As a Bay Area award winner, Gosschalk is now eligible for
consideration for the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2024 National
Awards. The National Award winners, including the Entrepreneur Of
The Year National Overall Award winner, will be announced in
November at the Strategic Growth Forum®, one of the nation’s most
prestigious gatherings of high-growth, market-leading companies.
The Entrepreneur Of The Year National Overall Award winner will
then move on to compete for the World Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Award in June 2025.
Entrepreneur Of The Year recognizes many different types of
business leaders for their ingenuity, courage and entrepreneurial
spirit. The program celebrates original founders who bootstrapped
their business from inception or who raised outside capital to grow
their company; transformational CEOs who infused innovation into an
existing organization to catapult its trajectory; and
multigenerational family business leaders who reimagined a legacy
business model to fortify it for the future.
The Entrepreneur Of The Year program has recognized the
leadership of entrepreneurs such as:
- Eyal Lifshitz of BlueVine
- Hamdi Ulukaya of Chobani, Inc.
- Holly Thaggard and Amanda Baldwin of Supergoop!
- Howard Schultz of Starbucks Coffee Company
- James Park of Fitbit
- Jodi Berg of Vitamix
- Keith Krach of DocuSign, Inc.
- Kendra Scott of Kendra Scott LLC
- Michael Happe of Winnebago Industries
- Sheila Mikhail of AskBio
Entrepreneur Of The Year Award winners become lifetime members
of a global, multi-industry community of entrepreneurs. They
receive exclusive, ongoing access to the experience, insight and
wisdom of program alumni and other ecosystem members in more than
60 countries — all supported by vast EY resources.
In addition to Entrepreneur Of The Year, EY US supports other
entrepreneurs through the EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women™
(Winning Women) program and the EY Entrepreneurs Access Network
(EAN) to help connect women founders and Black and Hispanic/Latino
entrepreneurs, respectively, with the resources, network and access
needed to unlock their full potential.
Sponsors
Founded and produced by Ernst & Young LLP, the Entrepreneur
Of The Year Awards include presenting sponsors PNC Bank, Cresa,
Marsh USA, SAP and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Bay Area
region, sponsors include DLA Piper, ADP and Big Picture.
About Entrepreneur Of The Year®
Founded in 1986, Entrepreneur Of The Year® has celebrated more
than 11,000 ambitious visionaries who are leading successful,
dynamic businesses in the US, and it has since expanded to nearly
80 countries and territories globally.
The US program consists of 17 regional programs whose panels of
independent judges select the regional award winners every June.
Those winners compete for national recognition at the Strategic
Growth Forum® in November where National finalists and award
winners are announced. The overall National winner represents the
US at the World Entrepreneur Of The Year® competition. Visit
ey.com/us/eoy.
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About Arkose Labs
The world’s leading organizations, including two of the top
three banks and the largest tech enterprises, trust Arkose Labs to
fight online fraud and keep users safe in digital transactions. Our
patented Arkose Bot Manager platform detects, traps, and
neutralizes bots and bad actors before they can make an impact,
without sacrificing the experience of genuine users, and tracks and
shares real time, global threat intelligence with our customers. No
one else is more proven at scale, provides more proactive support
for internal security teams, or outperforms Arkose Labs in
sabotaging attackers’ ROI. Our verified customer reviews on G2
reflect the value we add reducing the volume, internal cost, and
impact of bot attacks and online fraud. Based in San Mateo, CA,
Arkose Labs operates worldwide with offices in Asia, Australia,
Central America, EMEA and South America.
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Jean Creech Avent Global Head of Brand and Communications Arkose
Labs j.creechavent@arkoselabs.com